The Tiger Hunters of Tai O [Paperback]

Hong Kong, 1954. The colony was not ready to hear about a Eurasian policeman having an affair with the commissioners daughter. Simon Lee was banished to the far tip of a distant island  to Tai O, the ancient trading post where fishermen and refugees lived with spies, pirates and Triads. Some still believed that a tiger prowled the hills at night, and everybody had a secret about what they did during the war.Hong Kong, 1954. The British colony was not yet ready to hear about a Eurasian policeman having an affair with the police commissioners daughter. Simon Lee tasted swift punishment. He was banished to the far tip of a wild and distant island a stones throw from Chinese waters  to Tai O, the ancient trading post where fishermen, salt-farmers and refugees were thrown together with spies, pirates and Triads. Dolphins swam the waters, eagles fished the sea, and some still believed that a tiger prowled the hills at night. It was a place haunted by history, where corpses had floated in the bay when Japanese troops occupied the police station, and everybody had a secret about what they did during the war. Life was unpredictable for the band of misfits that staffed Tai O Police Station. But when a stranger was murdered on a beach, accused of being a Communist spy, Lee found himself on a collision course with his masters in Central. Who had the dead man been working for? What did the secret agents know? Why was Central so eager to brush the execution aside? And who or what really was the tiger?1 Ghost Riders2 You Aint Nothing but a Hound Dog3 Fever4 Night in Tunisia5 Mac the Knife6 Rags to Riches7 The Lion Sleeps Tonight8 Great Balls of Fire9 Seven Lonely Days10 Bye Bye Blackbird11 Ring of Fire12 In Other WordsJohn Saeki runs the graphics desk in the Hong Kong office of the newswire Agence France-Presse. When he is not composing explainers and factfiles on spy scandals, refugee crises and wildlife, he likes to explols